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Frenzy vs Hustle - What's the difference?

frenzy | hustle |

As nouns the difference between frenzy and hustle

is that frenzy is a state of wild activity or panic while hustle is a state of busy activity.

As verbs the difference between frenzy and hustle

is that frenzy is (uncommon) to render frantic while hustle is to rush or hurry.

As an adjective frenzy

is (obsolete) mad; frantic.

frenzy

English

Alternative forms

* phrenzy, phrensy (obsolete)

Noun

(frenzies)
  • A state of wild activity or panic.
  • She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
  • A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
  • * Addison
  • All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
  • * William Shakespeare, ''A midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1:
  • The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

    Derived terms

    * feeding frenzy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
  • * 1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress :
  • They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

    Verb

  • (uncommon) To render frantic.
  • hustle

    English

    Verb

  • To rush or hurry.
  • I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
  • * 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
  • Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
  • To con or deceive; especially financially.
  • The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
  • To bundle, to stow something quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
  • To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
  • To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
  • To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
  • To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
  • (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
  • To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
  • *
  • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of busy activity.
  • A type of disco dance.
  • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle * hustler * hustly

    Anagrams

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